Best Jazz Album

[spankyfrank]

I don't have much jazz in my music library except for a Charlie Brown christmas soundtrack and "A Kind Of blue" by Mile Davis. I would like to correct this so I pose the quesiton:

What are the best Jazz Albums?

[midwestjeff]

Anything by Django Reinhardt.

http://www.redhotjazz.com/django.html

or Coltrane. can't go wrong there.

[outlawfrank]

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um
The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out
Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage
Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners

Here are a few giants in jazz. If you don't know a whole lot about jazz may I suggest Dave Brubeeck Quartet. It will seem very organized, you may recognize track #3, "Take Five".

[hedges]

some that I like:
Miles Davis "Birth of the Cool"
Miles Davis "Four & More" (live) w/ Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, and Tony Williams
John Coltrane "Giant Steps" & "A Love Supreme"
Art Tatum (pianist)-any
Chick Corea "Three Quartets"
Stanley Jordan "Magic Touch"
Joe Pass & JJ Johnson "We'll Be Together Again"
Charles Mingus "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady"

[Landblast]

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t224/pbr_/51JZS8H3PEL._AA240_.jpg


You'll find this album on alot of peoples top 5 lists, if your into quartets, and not alot of elements in your jazz, but gotta have that pure raw feeling of jazz, you can't go wrong with A Love Supreme - John Coltrane

[zentraed]

Bill Evans - Conversations with Myself
Thelonius Monk - Straight No Chaser

Two of the piano greats.